Number 41

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 140 draws, 5 from 1–49.

11times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.92σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

11.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

26longest completed wait · 50% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 140 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.92σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 140 draws · average wait 11.0 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 1 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 41 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.1
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.2
4th smallest3 · chance 4.5
5th smallest6 · chance 5.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

7 36 1 8 16 24

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 19 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 41 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 49. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 41 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-11	2	5th	2 5 14 36 41
2026-10-09	26	4th	8 18 19 41 43
2026-09-13	19	5th	1 7 9 24 41
2026-08-25	2	5th	3 6

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 41 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.